If I wanted [[Foobar]]'s to look like [[Foobar's]] I'd pipe it manually as [[Foobar|Foobar's]] but this would be a rare case in itself (like a restaurant named after a person, where only the person has an article, maybe??? but even that would be on the outer edge of likelihood).

I agree with Charlotte, on reflection. This is a bad change. The target of the link should be described by the link text if not specifically overridden. If I write [[spider]]s, then including the "s" would be correct, because the [[spider]] article is indeed about "spiders". If I write [[spider]]ing, then the [[spider]] article would indeed be about "spidering", since that's what spiders do. (Yes, it's a stupid example; pretend [[spider]] is about web spiders or something.) But if I write [[spider]]'s, the [[spider]] article is not about "spider's". Indeed, having an article about a possessive is silly, unless it's about the word itself or a proper noun, and in that case the title of the article should be [[spider's]] to begin with.

I don't understand the logic of your example, Simetrical. "X is about Y" sentences turn ungrammatical if you use genitives for Y, but I don't see the point, why linking the word turns bad cause of this. The purpose of linktrails is not, that the linked article should be about the whole word, but cause words linked only partially are "ugly". It's "style guide" reasons, not semantic ones. And genitive suffixes are part of words just like plural suffixes are.

Perhaps someone could start a discussion on mediawiki-l to discuss the usefulness of including 's vs. excluding it.

Then we could get feedback from more than just a select few devs and a user or two. This is something I've heard complaints on that [[Foo]]'s is not linked in the past. So perhaps a wide group discussion would be best for determining. But the main complaint I hear is that [[Foo|Foo's]] when linking 's is correct is quite ugly and most wiki like to avoid doing unnecessary things like that.

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